Duration: Under 15 Minutes
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Thank you again everyone for being on the line
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today. Today, we're talking about teaching
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emotional essential life skills with
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Gale in Context Elementary. My
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name is Amber Winters and I am your
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Gale training consultant for the day.
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I have a quick agenda here. So first I just
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want to briefly go over what Gall and Context
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Elementary is to make sure we're all on the same
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page.
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We're going to walk through the content for the majority
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of our time today though. So we're going to see where
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we can find this great social, emotional
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learning and life skills content.
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We're going to talk about how you can utilize
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that content. So some different strategies
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when we're talking about the different content types
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or the different tools within the resource, how you can
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utilize those and leverage them in your classroom,
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we're going to talk about some support materials just
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to give you some extra inspiration. So
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if you are planning on getting this information
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out to your students, we have a lot of
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premade material that can help you out with that.
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And then at the end of the session, we should have
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time for any questions, but feel free to put them
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into the Q and A. As we move along
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today, I should be able to answer them kind
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of throughout the session. You shouldn't have to wait until the very end.
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And then I have some wrap up contact information
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for you at the very end as well.
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So let's go ahead and just jump right in here. So, first
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off Galen context elementary, if
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you're new to it, if it's been a while is
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you're going to be your resource for your K five
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students. And it
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includes quite a wide variety of content
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everywhere from reference works
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which we call book articles and ga context
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elementary to make them a little bit more inviting
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to newspapers and magazines. We have a great
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set of images and video files
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as well as different biographies and things like that.
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And this is cross curricular. So today, of course,
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we're focused on that social emotional learning
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kind of section of the resource.
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You will find information on science,
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social studies
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English
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people, the world. It's
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very, very cross curricular, art and music.
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You'll find quite a bit of content for that as
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well. And within this platform, we
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do have both search and browse capabilities.
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We're going to spend our time browsing
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today. So you can see how easy it is to
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really point and click down to the information that you
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need, but we do have both
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and our content we're going to take a look at today are
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going to be great for Bell Ringers
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for station learning. If you're planning on setting
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up stations, it's great to
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either print off of this resource or
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to just have this resource set open
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in a station for students. It's really easy for them
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to navigate independently.
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Also, of course, as you could imagine,
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great for project research. That's a lot
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of times what we think of when we think about this resource.
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But there's so much more than just project
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research, also great for group discussions
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and things like that.
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It especially comes in handy if you have this
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link to a learning management system
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or if you have access to Google, Google
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classroom, you can actually send content
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directly from this platform to wherever
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you're instructing your students. So
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that just gives you another layer of connectivity
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with this resource, you'll really be able to get
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it into the, the hands of your students really
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simply.
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So again, today, we're talking about the different
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emotional and social essential
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life skills that we want to teach
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our students. So we're going to be
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using the topic tree navigation today
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when we do jump into the resource and
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this is going to move students forward
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just point, see a clicking. So this is really great.
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Again, if you're maybe having them work independently
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or if they're working at home and you want them to access
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this content, you don't need to worry about them
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building their own search terms, which they may not
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be ready for just yet. They can point
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and click and narrow it down to exactly what they're looking
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for. Specifically
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when we're talking about our emotional and
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social learning information that's
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all found within our health topic. We've kind
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of included all of that there. So not
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only personal health, so physical and mental,
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but also relationship health. We've kind of all
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included that right into our health category
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and that is found right on the home page. So your
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students will be able to immediately see where they need
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to click into.
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And once they do click into that health topic, you'll see,
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we've added another layer of
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point and click selection to
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our topic trees where they're going to be able to narrow down
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even further. So they're in this health
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section, but maybe they want to learn about getting
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along with each other or maybe they're more
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concerned about their emotions and kind of how
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they're feeling internally.
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They'll be able to find all of that content and
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you'll be able to find all of that content right?
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In this really simple and easy to navigate
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topic tree
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and each of these topics are broken down into
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topic pages as well. We'll take a look at
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that in the resource. They really organize
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everything we have available for students. They're going to get
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a nice topic overview. If we have
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book articles, they'll see those, they'll see images,
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they'll see related topics. It's
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a really nice one stop shop
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for whatever you're planning on doing in your classroom.
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So let's go and take a look. Let's see how we can
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use this content, how we can find it.
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All that good stuff. I haven't seen questions
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pop up here
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um in the Q and A but I will
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pass for just one second here. Are there any questions
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about just that very brief overview
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we just touched on?
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OK, I don't see any. So let's go ahead
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and get started then. So this is our Gain Context
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elementary home page. I'm
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sure most of you are already familiar.
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So go ahead, let's go ahead and scroll down here.
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And as I mentioned, we're stopping to today, we're starting
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today at our health section. That's where we're going to
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find all of that social and emotional
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learning content.
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So when I click into health here,
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I'm just taking to my second level of my topic
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tree. So again, we saw this on my slide.
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This is giving me more options to see exactly
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what I'm looking for.
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So let's today. Um Let's worry about
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getting along with others. Maybe that's our, you know, that we're
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starting here.
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So once I jump down to that next level of
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content now is we're going to find
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some really specific topics here.
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You'll see things like body language, bullying,
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different relationships that we're talking
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about to understanding others. But what
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I want to point out on this page
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is this, I wonder question down
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here at the bottom. These are really
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excellent for Bell Ringers.
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You can either copy this question and, you know, post
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it yourself or you can have your students
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pull up the resource on
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their computers or their desks and they can
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take a look at this, I wonder they can write out their
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answer
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and they can hit this find out. So maybe
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they want to answer first or maybe they want to find
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out first. But when they select, find
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out it pulls them
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forward to this page, whatever page is related
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to the question
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and they'll be able to read through and
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answer that question.
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So a really simple way to get them engaged
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with the content. It's right there
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on the bottom of that page for them
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and it does change periodically. So I
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do suggest um having all
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of your students sign in at the same time and taking
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a look at the same time. I think it's especially
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helpful just to have it on your front board.
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So you have your smart board, you're projecting
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to whatever you're projecting to have this
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pulled up and your students will be able to answer
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and you can even find out together what's
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what different answers are available for them.
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Well, let's go ahead and click into one of these topics
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here. We'll work as a team
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today. That's always a, a
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difficult seat when
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we're talking about elementary kiddos is getting
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them to start working in healthy teams.
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So here we are, this is
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our topic page. So I want
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to mention that I can actually get a link directly
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to this topic page. I can actually
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get a link to any page within this resource.
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So if I want to just
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start students off on their learning on this
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page, maybe I don't want them clicking all the way through
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the resource. I know what content I content
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I want them to see and I want them to get there quickly.
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I can use this, get link of top here,
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my toolbar
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and I can get a persistent URL to this page.
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So I can really easily copy and paste
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this maybe in a discussion board,
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maybe on a syllabus. If you're going to have
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students utilizing this in a project,
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I could even, you know, send it out to parents.
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Maybe I want parents to take a look at this page
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and help their students at home.
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I can use this, get link and get a link to any page.
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So back me up just quickly if I decided,
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um I wanted to jump back to this option
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here. I wanted them to see all of the different topics
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related to getting along with others.
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I can be on this page again,
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use that link in the same spot.
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I know they can be bumped here
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and this may be great if you want students to find their
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own topic.
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So if you want them to start exploring on their own, maybe they're going
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to be working in groups, each group is going to
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take an individual topic and
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then they're going to come together and share out after
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or again. If you're planning on doing something like
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stations, you can have this pulled forward
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just again, a really nice way to get this content
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out to your students. But let's stick with
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working as a team here.
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So just briefly this topic page, I'm gonna
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point out some of the key features before we jump
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right in here. So you'll see, we get some quick
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facts about whatever topic we're looking
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at. And then underneath, we see all of the
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different content types that are related
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to this specific topic here.
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So you'll see, we have our book articles, those are
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reference works. So shorter reference pieces,
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we call them book articles just to make it a little more inviting
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if your learning
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community has access to Gale ebooks
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and you have elementary leveled ebooks.
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Those will also appear here as well.
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So you'll see, I have a few ebooks that are
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attached to my Gale Ebooks account that
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are going to populate here for me as well. So I can
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actually log into a full ebook right from
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Gale and Context Elementary.
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You'll see. We've got some pictures, we have a nice
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video about supporting each other. So
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you will find some social emotional
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learning video content here as well.
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If I click into this here, I'm just going to
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pause it and we're not going to play through it.
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But you'll see, this is a short one, this is a minute
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and 25 seconds. So a really nice
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quick way to get some information over to
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students again. And a really nice
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bell ringer just to play this nice
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short video and have students maybe answer some questions
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that you have assigned to them.
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You'll see underneath the video itself. We do
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include um the full
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transcript here. So if students need the transcript,
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we have that we also have closed captioning
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on all of our videos here as well.
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So let's go ahead and jump back
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at the very bottom of these topic pages. We also
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include related topics. So if your
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students are working independently and you want
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them to kind of continue learning on their own,
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this related topics may be a good place
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for them to go as well. So they kind of understand
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working as a team now.
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So maybe they also want to consider um avoiding
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conflict, obviously, that's directly related
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to working in a team. So maybe they want to jump to that
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topic now.
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But let me scroll up here. I'm just going to hit
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keep reading, which is going to launch me into this
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overview. It's going to pull forward the full text
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and let's talk just a little bit on how we can use
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an article within our classrooms here.
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So I do want to show you a few different ways to
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really make this content as accessible
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as possible for students before we talk about
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some teaching strategies.
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So if you have students who need
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excuse me,
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um some additional support with their reading,
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we have the ability to increase
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and decrease the font size here. Scroll
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down, you can see that
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we also have the option to translate this
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article.
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So a lot of schools of course, have
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a, a large Spanish speaking
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population, you can translate
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this to Spanish. I know a lot of places
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I'm located in Michigan. So a lot of places
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especially in Southeast Michigan
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have a large student population who speaks Arabic.
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So you can also translate to Arabic and
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you'll see quite a few different language options
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here as well.
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So you can if you decide maybe to print
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out this article for your students,
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you could translate and maybe print some in Spanish,
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maybe print them in English. You'll have that
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capability here on the platform.
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We also have these great display options here.
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So again, if you have students who need
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special support as they're reading, maybe
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they need a background color to help them out.
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Maybe they want a different font. You'll see, we do have
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a dyslexia font. So if you're working with dyslexic
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students or just students who have trouble
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reading in general, this font may be helpful
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for them
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and then you'll see if we can change the line letter word spacing.
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So this is really nice to kind of prep before
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you work with your students. You'll see now it's quite
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a bit different than when it started off as
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so this is great to prep before you even
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get started. So, you know, your students, best
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of course, if you're working with a group
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of students who are maybe struggling readers,
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you may want to have all of this accessibility
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feature turned on and ready to go for them before
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you even start reading and, and have it ready.
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I'm gonna turn it all off for today
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back to my default settings
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and these
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accessibility tools,
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sorry if I'm trying, I thought there these accessibility
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tools do follow along as you move
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forward through the session. So
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if you're having students maybe read more than one
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article. Once you have your parameters
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set, you have all your features set, it will follow
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along for them.
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So another accessibility feature I want
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to point out is our leveling options
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you'll see at the very top of my page here.
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I have the option to view a level one or
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level two version of this
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document. If I click into level one,
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oops, looks like it signed me out
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because I left it sitting
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in my browser here. There we go. So
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I started off here and I just selected level
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one here on the left hand side. It's
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going to pull forward a lower level of content
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and our levels
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are a stick with level two.
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Um Our levels are based
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on Lexa Ranges. So if you want to see the actual
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lea of a document that you're planning on working on
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with students,
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you can go to this little article info button
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in this right hand corner here
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and it gives you the flex measure dropdown. So
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you'll see you have two different options for this article.
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Of course, one is at that higher level and one is at
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that lower, you can toggle here as well.
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So again, if you're trying to differentiate, maybe you do
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have stations set up and you want some stations
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to read the lower level of content. And
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maybe you have some students who are excelling who
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are may be ready to take a look at the higher level of content.
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You can differentiate which students see what
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piece of content and they're going to get the same information
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just in a few different methods. So I
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think this is a really nice feature for you as Well,
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if you are working with a pretty diverse
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group of students, we are trying to help
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you here to have some different reading
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levels.
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But now let's
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go ahead and take a look at this article here. So let me spur it onto
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the actual text. I will point out you'll see. Sometimes
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we have things like words to know, you
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may want to bring to your students attention.
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You see down here, we have an activity
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available here as well.
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If I go into my level two,
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they'll most likely be slightly different. You'll see this has
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main ideas,
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this one has another activity, but it's a little bit
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more advanced activities. So
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these are often times helpful for you. So
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if you're looking for a quick, you know,
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quick activity to run in your class,
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I recommend clicking into some of our articles. A lot
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of times you will find we call them
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sidebars even though they're in the middle of the page.
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you may find activities, you also might
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find things like critical thinking questions that you can
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post to your students. So you find
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a lot of
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activity work kind of embedded within
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our articles. But what I want to talk
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about is close reading.
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We actually have a, a great feature, our highlights
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and notes feature that make it really helpful
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if you're planning on close reading as a group.
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So what we've seen a lot of educators do is
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pull up whatever article they want to read with their
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students. And of course they can pull it up
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on their smart board or whatever projector
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they're using. Or of course they can have students pull
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it up individually.
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I think it's most beneficial to pull it up on
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the smart board and then work together. So you'll
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start to read through this article
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and you can ask students, let me know when you think
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a piece of content or when you
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think a sentence is really important and we're
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going to highlight it
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so we can run through. And you know, Timmy
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told me that this sentence was really
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helpful. So we're gonna highlight
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that in purple
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as you're reading through. Maybe Mary says,
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wow, this, this sentence is really,
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really important to what we're reading. This is giving us
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maybe the the main points of this
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page, we can highlight that again,
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maybe I have another student who's saying, I don't
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really understand what the sentence is.
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So maybe that's going to be highlighted in yellow
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and we can come back and kind of kind
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of dig deeper into this sentence to see
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exactly what it means. So this is a really
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nice way to get students engaged in the
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text instead of just reading through it, they're
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going through their highlighting the key points.
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Maybe they're highlighting things they don't quite understand.
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And again, this can be done together as a large
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group where the teacher is herself
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is highlighting the bit of information
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that students point out or it can be done
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individually
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and students can have to point it out on their own.
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And if we are using this method where we're highlighting
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and kind of keeping this information, may
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we may want to keep those for later or maybe
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students will be turning that into you.
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So we have a few different collaborative tools that
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may be helpful. So you can actually send
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this over to Google classroom. You'll see my Google
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classroom icon up top here.
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So if you want to send all the information that way,
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I'm not signed in, so I won't sign in today.
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But you see it pops up into this little
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window, you'll be able to create an
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assignment, ask a question. Anything
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you would be able to do within the native Google
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classroom interface and you'll be able to post
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it or you can
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choose you or your students can choose
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to send over to a Google drive or
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a one drive and sending over to these drives does
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keep the highlights along with the article.
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So if you do assign students to
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maybe highlighting the key points of an article
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or highlighting the things that can, they confuse
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them that they found most interesting,
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you can have them send it over to a drive or
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you can have it, you can have them email it to
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you. If you have your email address
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handy, you prefer that
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it does again keep those highlights
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and they can send that over to you.
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This can also be downloaded or printed.
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So again, if you prefer to have a hard copy,
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you have that ability here.
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But it's a really nice way to keep this.
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So once we have all of this set, we
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do kind of aggregate all of our highlights
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and notes together on one page as well.
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So if you want to take a look at that as a class,
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we have them nice and neatly organized in a chart.
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If you click into our highlights and notes option here,
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you'll see what I have highlighted, but I'm going to hit
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you all
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and now we'll see the different sentences we have highlighted.
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We'll see there are different highlight colors and we
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can add notes here.
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This is a great way just to have students
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kind of see the overall view
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of an article. This is really nice. If you want
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to help students learn how to summarize
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information, you can tell them, you know, highlights
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the pieces of this text that are most important
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that are going to give someone who's not
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reading the actual text and understanding of
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what it's saying. So they can highlight,
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pull forward into this highlights and notes
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option and they'll be able to
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just read what they highlighted to see if it
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really does make sense to see if they really
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did summarize the text,
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you'll see they can label their highlights as well.
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So if they want to label these maybe
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you'll see, I have a few different labels they've already used.
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maybe they highlighted the introduction
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of something. They can choose the highlights
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and list that here. Um Again, if they
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may be confused about something,
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they can just note that here. And again,
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they can save this for themselves.
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They can choose to send this over somewhere if
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they want to send it to their drives or if maybe they want
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to email it to you,
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they can download or they can print right here as
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well. So this is another great way to
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just have them kind of talk to the text
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and pull it apart and really understand
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what exactly it's trying to say
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and then clicking into it. They can easily get
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right back here
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to this main page and make edits. However
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they want to do that.
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I want to jump back into my presentation
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slides because of a few different bits
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of inspiration for activities that I hope
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will help you get this content to
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your students. So do you have any questions
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just about the content we took a look at or
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a few of those different tools we explored?
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OK. I don't see any. So I quickly
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want to mention we have a lot of pre
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creative activities already found
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on our support site, which is support.gale.com
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And while a lot of these activities aren't specifically
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focused on social and emotional learning,
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they give you kind of a great template if you want
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to get your students involved using that kind
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of option. So the
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first we have is a scavenger hunt. We have
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a huge collection of scavenger hunts.
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but these are great teams just to start up
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as well. So if you want to have a scavenger hunt, maybe
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about emotions or something like that,
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you go ahead and edit this to include just content
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related to emotions.
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Another great way to get this content into your
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classroom is using an escape room and
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we do have a full blank escape
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room on our support site for you. So
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again, as you look for this specific
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content you want, maybe it is working with the
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team, maybe it's conflict resolution.
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Maybe it's perspective taking,
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you can build a full escape room around
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that using the template we already have created on
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the support site. So no reinventing
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the wheel for you.
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You also might want to consider trading cards.
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We use those for a lot of different
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topics within the resource. So you'll
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see this one here. I pulled forward is just for solar
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systems, but it could also be great for
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emotions, you know, anger, sadness,
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happiness, excitement.
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And then on the back, you'll have them fill out
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whatever information you want them to fill out.
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When do people feel angry? How do people
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express their anger?
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And it's also a great idea to have them cite
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their sources on the backs of these
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trading cards as well. Within
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the resource, we actually have a citation tool
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where students could just click and get that citation
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create, created for them.
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It's an excellent way to have them practice citing
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sources.
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So nice, simple trading cards
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and we also have things you'll see. This one here is
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focused specifically on bullying. So this
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one is kind of pulling forward that social
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emotional learning, those life skills.
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This one's in just an article
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article report like a book report,
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they find an article within Galan context elementary
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that's about bullying
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and then they read through the article, they
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go over the why of the article, the
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what did you learn? Reflections? And
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then you see this one also has a class presentation
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set up as well.
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So these are just a few different ways that you can kind
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of get in contact elementary
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into your classroom. Instead of just
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focusing on research projects.
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Of course, we want your students to
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use this for their research. Always, always.
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But it also offers quite
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a few different activity options to really
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engage students electronically
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as opposed to strictly
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on paper. So
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quite a few different new options for you
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to take a look at there
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and that's what I have for you today. We do have
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a few minutes left. So I would love to answer questions,
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that anyone may have left over again.
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If you're looking for some more specific
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activity suggestions, we do have
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our support site where you can find those. So
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if you want to pull that, blank
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escape room, if you're planning and running in emotions,
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escape room or a teamwork escape room,
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you'll find that on our support site as well as
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scavenger hunts. all that good
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stuff, support.gale.com
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I definitely recommend taking a look
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if you do have the time.
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If you have more questions about this or maybe
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about Gale and contact elementary, just
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in general, you can reach out to your customer
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success manager. If you don't know who it is,
[00:23:40.650]
just send an email to [email protected]
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and they can help you
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out. They can also work with you
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to take a look at the support site. If you want to take a look
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at the materials we have available, to
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really integrate this into your lessons.
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You can certainly do that
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if you don't have access to Gale and Context
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elementary right now, but you're interested, reach
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out to your sales consultant. If you don't know
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who they are, you can send I'm sorry,
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you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder
[00:24:05.788]
and you'll be
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forwarded to the correct individual and you can talk about
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this resource with them, or maybe talk
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about your gale ebooks and how you can get those integrated
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within gale and context elementary.
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And finally, I do have a quick session survey
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here. If you have the time to take it, I have a QR
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code posted. It's also going
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to pop up in your browser once we're done here for
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the day. But I would love for you to take that
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just so we can make sure that we're always
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kind of hitting what you're looking for
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when you join these sessions. We want to make sure
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that you're getting the content that you need.
Thank you again everyone for being on the line
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today. Today, we're talking about teaching
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emotional essential life skills with
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Gale in Context Elementary. My
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name is Amber Winters and I am your
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Gale training consultant for the day.
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I have a quick agenda here. So first I just
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want to briefly go over what Gall and Context
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Elementary is to make sure we're all on the same
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page.
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We're going to walk through the content for the majority
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of our time today though. So we're going to see where
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we can find this great social, emotional
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learning and life skills content.
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We're going to talk about how you can utilize
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that content. So some different strategies
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when we're talking about the different content types
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or the different tools within the resource, how you can
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utilize those and leverage them in your classroom,
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we're going to talk about some support materials just
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to give you some extra inspiration. So
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if you are planning on getting this information
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out to your students, we have a lot of
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premade material that can help you out with that.
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And then at the end of the session, we should have
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time for any questions, but feel free to put them
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into the Q and A. As we move along
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today, I should be able to answer them kind
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of throughout the session. You shouldn't have to wait until the very end.
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And then I have some wrap up contact information
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for you at the very end as well.
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So let's go ahead and just jump right in here. So, first
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off Galen context elementary, if
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you're new to it, if it's been a while is
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you're going to be your resource for your K five
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students. And it
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includes quite a wide variety of content
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everywhere from reference works
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which we call book articles and ga context
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elementary to make them a little bit more inviting
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to newspapers and magazines. We have a great
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set of images and video files
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as well as different biographies and things like that.
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And this is cross curricular. So today, of course,
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we're focused on that social emotional learning
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kind of section of the resource.
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You will find information on science,
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social studies
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English
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people, the world. It's
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very, very cross curricular, art and music.
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You'll find quite a bit of content for that as
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well. And within this platform, we
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do have both search and browse capabilities.
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We're going to spend our time browsing
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today. So you can see how easy it is to
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really point and click down to the information that you
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need, but we do have both
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and our content we're going to take a look at today are
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going to be great for Bell Ringers
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for station learning. If you're planning on setting
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up stations, it's great to
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either print off of this resource or
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to just have this resource set open
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in a station for students. It's really easy for them
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to navigate independently.
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Also, of course, as you could imagine,
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great for project research. That's a lot
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of times what we think of when we think about this resource.
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But there's so much more than just project
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research, also great for group discussions
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and things like that.
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It especially comes in handy if you have this
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link to a learning management system
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or if you have access to Google, Google
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classroom, you can actually send content
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directly from this platform to wherever
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you're instructing your students. So
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that just gives you another layer of connectivity
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with this resource, you'll really be able to get
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it into the, the hands of your students really
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simply.
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So again, today, we're talking about the different
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emotional and social essential
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life skills that we want to teach
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our students. So we're going to be
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using the topic tree navigation today
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when we do jump into the resource and
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this is going to move students forward
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just point, see a clicking. So this is really great.
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Again, if you're maybe having them work independently
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or if they're working at home and you want them to access
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this content, you don't need to worry about them
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building their own search terms, which they may not
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be ready for just yet. They can point
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and click and narrow it down to exactly what they're looking
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for. Specifically
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when we're talking about our emotional and
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social learning information that's
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all found within our health topic. We've kind
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of included all of that there. So not
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only personal health, so physical and mental,
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but also relationship health. We've kind of all
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included that right into our health category
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and that is found right on the home page. So your
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students will be able to immediately see where they need
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to click into.
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And once they do click into that health topic, you'll see,
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we've added another layer of
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point and click selection to
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our topic trees where they're going to be able to narrow down
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even further. So they're in this health
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section, but maybe they want to learn about getting
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along with each other or maybe they're more
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concerned about their emotions and kind of how
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they're feeling internally.
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They'll be able to find all of that content and
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you'll be able to find all of that content right?
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In this really simple and easy to navigate
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topic tree
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and each of these topics are broken down into
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topic pages as well. We'll take a look at
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that in the resource. They really organize
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everything we have available for students. They're going to get
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a nice topic overview. If we have
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book articles, they'll see those, they'll see images,
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they'll see related topics. It's
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a really nice one stop shop
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for whatever you're planning on doing in your classroom.
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So let's go and take a look. Let's see how we can
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use this content, how we can find it.
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All that good stuff. I haven't seen questions
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pop up here
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um in the Q and A but I will
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pass for just one second here. Are there any questions
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about just that very brief overview
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we just touched on?
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OK, I don't see any. So let's go ahead
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and get started then. So this is our Gain Context
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elementary home page. I'm
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sure most of you are already familiar.
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So go ahead, let's go ahead and scroll down here.
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And as I mentioned, we're stopping to today, we're starting
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today at our health section. That's where we're going to
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find all of that social and emotional
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learning content.
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So when I click into health here,
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I'm just taking to my second level of my topic
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tree. So again, we saw this on my slide.
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This is giving me more options to see exactly
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what I'm looking for.
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So let's today. Um Let's worry about
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getting along with others. Maybe that's our, you know, that we're
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starting here.
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So once I jump down to that next level of
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content now is we're going to find
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some really specific topics here.
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You'll see things like body language, bullying,
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different relationships that we're talking
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about to understanding others. But what
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I want to point out on this page
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is this, I wonder question down
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here at the bottom. These are really
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excellent for Bell Ringers.
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You can either copy this question and, you know, post
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it yourself or you can have your students
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pull up the resource on
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their computers or their desks and they can
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take a look at this, I wonder they can write out their
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answer
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and they can hit this find out. So maybe
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they want to answer first or maybe they want to find
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out first. But when they select, find
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out it pulls them
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forward to this page, whatever page is related
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to the question
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and they'll be able to read through and
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answer that question.
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So a really simple way to get them engaged
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with the content. It's right there
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on the bottom of that page for them
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and it does change periodically. So I
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do suggest um having all
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of your students sign in at the same time and taking
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a look at the same time. I think it's especially
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helpful just to have it on your front board.
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So you have your smart board, you're projecting
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to whatever you're projecting to have this
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pulled up and your students will be able to answer
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and you can even find out together what's
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what different answers are available for them.
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Well, let's go ahead and click into one of these topics
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here. We'll work as a team
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today. That's always a, a
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difficult seat when
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we're talking about elementary kiddos is getting
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them to start working in healthy teams.
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So here we are, this is
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our topic page. So I want
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to mention that I can actually get a link directly
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to this topic page. I can actually
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get a link to any page within this resource.
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So if I want to just
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start students off on their learning on this
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page, maybe I don't want them clicking all the way through
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the resource. I know what content I content
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I want them to see and I want them to get there quickly.
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I can use this, get link of top here,
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my toolbar
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and I can get a persistent URL to this page.
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So I can really easily copy and paste
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this maybe in a discussion board,
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maybe on a syllabus. If you're going to have
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students utilizing this in a project,
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I could even, you know, send it out to parents.
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Maybe I want parents to take a look at this page
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and help their students at home.
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I can use this, get link and get a link to any page.
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So back me up just quickly if I decided,
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um I wanted to jump back to this option
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here. I wanted them to see all of the different topics
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related to getting along with others.
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I can be on this page again,
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use that link in the same spot.
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I know they can be bumped here
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and this may be great if you want students to find their
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own topic.
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So if you want them to start exploring on their own, maybe they're going
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to be working in groups, each group is going to
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take an individual topic and
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then they're going to come together and share out after
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or again. If you're planning on doing something like
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stations, you can have this pulled forward
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just again, a really nice way to get this content
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out to your students. But let's stick with
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working as a team here.
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So just briefly this topic page, I'm gonna
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point out some of the key features before we jump
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right in here. So you'll see, we get some quick
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facts about whatever topic we're looking
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at. And then underneath, we see all of the
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different content types that are related
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to this specific topic here.
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So you'll see, we have our book articles, those are
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reference works. So shorter reference pieces,
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we call them book articles just to make it a little more inviting
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if your learning
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community has access to Gale ebooks
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and you have elementary leveled ebooks.
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Those will also appear here as well.
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So you'll see, I have a few ebooks that are
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attached to my Gale Ebooks account that
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are going to populate here for me as well. So I can
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actually log into a full ebook right from
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Gale and Context Elementary.
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You'll see. We've got some pictures, we have a nice
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video about supporting each other. So
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you will find some social emotional
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learning video content here as well.
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If I click into this here, I'm just going to
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pause it and we're not going to play through it.
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But you'll see, this is a short one, this is a minute
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and 25 seconds. So a really nice
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quick way to get some information over to
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students again. And a really nice
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bell ringer just to play this nice
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short video and have students maybe answer some questions
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that you have assigned to them.
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You'll see underneath the video itself. We do
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include um the full
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transcript here. So if students need the transcript,
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we have that we also have closed captioning
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on all of our videos here as well.
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So let's go ahead and jump back
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at the very bottom of these topic pages. We also
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include related topics. So if your
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students are working independently and you want
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them to kind of continue learning on their own,
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this related topics may be a good place
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for them to go as well. So they kind of understand
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working as a team now.
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So maybe they also want to consider um avoiding
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conflict, obviously, that's directly related
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to working in a team. So maybe they want to jump to that
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topic now.
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But let me scroll up here. I'm just going to hit
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keep reading, which is going to launch me into this
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overview. It's going to pull forward the full text
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and let's talk just a little bit on how we can use
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an article within our classrooms here.
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So I do want to show you a few different ways to
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really make this content as accessible
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as possible for students before we talk about
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some teaching strategies.
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So if you have students who need
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excuse me,
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um some additional support with their reading,
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we have the ability to increase
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and decrease the font size here. Scroll
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down, you can see that
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we also have the option to translate this
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article.
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So a lot of schools of course, have
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a, a large Spanish speaking
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population, you can translate
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this to Spanish. I know a lot of places
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I'm located in Michigan. So a lot of places
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especially in Southeast Michigan
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have a large student population who speaks Arabic.
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So you can also translate to Arabic and
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you'll see quite a few different language options
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here as well.
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So you can if you decide maybe to print
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out this article for your students,
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you could translate and maybe print some in Spanish,
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maybe print them in English. You'll have that
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capability here on the platform.
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We also have these great display options here.
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So again, if you have students who need
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special support as they're reading, maybe
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they need a background color to help them out.
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Maybe they want a different font. You'll see, we do have
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a dyslexia font. So if you're working with dyslexic
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students or just students who have trouble
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reading in general, this font may be helpful
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for them
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and then you'll see if we can change the line letter word spacing.
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So this is really nice to kind of prep before
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you work with your students. You'll see now it's quite
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a bit different than when it started off as
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so this is great to prep before you even
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get started. So, you know, your students, best
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of course, if you're working with a group
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of students who are maybe struggling readers,
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you may want to have all of this accessibility
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feature turned on and ready to go for them before
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you even start reading and, and have it ready.
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I'm gonna turn it all off for today
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back to my default settings
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and these
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accessibility tools,
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sorry if I'm trying, I thought there these accessibility
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tools do follow along as you move
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forward through the session. So
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if you're having students maybe read more than one
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article. Once you have your parameters
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set, you have all your features set, it will follow
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along for them.
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So another accessibility feature I want
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to point out is our leveling options
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you'll see at the very top of my page here.
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I have the option to view a level one or
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level two version of this
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document. If I click into level one,
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oops, looks like it signed me out
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because I left it sitting
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in my browser here. There we go. So
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I started off here and I just selected level
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one here on the left hand side. It's
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going to pull forward a lower level of content
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and our levels
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are a stick with level two.
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Um Our levels are based
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on Lexa Ranges. So if you want to see the actual
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lea of a document that you're planning on working on
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with students,
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you can go to this little article info button
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in this right hand corner here
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and it gives you the flex measure dropdown. So
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you'll see you have two different options for this article.
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Of course, one is at that higher level and one is at
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that lower, you can toggle here as well.
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So again, if you're trying to differentiate, maybe you do
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have stations set up and you want some stations
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to read the lower level of content. And
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maybe you have some students who are excelling who
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are may be ready to take a look at the higher level of content.
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You can differentiate which students see what
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piece of content and they're going to get the same information
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just in a few different methods. So I
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think this is a really nice feature for you as Well,
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if you are working with a pretty diverse
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group of students, we are trying to help
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you here to have some different reading
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levels.
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But now let's
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go ahead and take a look at this article here. So let me spur it onto
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the actual text. I will point out you'll see. Sometimes
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we have things like words to know, you
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may want to bring to your students attention.
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You see down here, we have an activity
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available here as well.
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If I go into my level two,
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they'll most likely be slightly different. You'll see this has
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main ideas,
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this one has another activity, but it's a little bit
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more advanced activities. So
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these are often times helpful for you. So
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if you're looking for a quick, you know,
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quick activity to run in your class,
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I recommend clicking into some of our articles. A lot
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of times you will find we call them
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sidebars even though they're in the middle of the page.
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you may find activities, you also might
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find things like critical thinking questions that you can
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post to your students. So you find
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a lot of
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activity work kind of embedded within
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our articles. But what I want to talk
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about is close reading.
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We actually have a, a great feature, our highlights
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and notes feature that make it really helpful
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if you're planning on close reading as a group.
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So what we've seen a lot of educators do is
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pull up whatever article they want to read with their
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students. And of course they can pull it up
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on their smart board or whatever projector
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they're using. Or of course they can have students pull
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it up individually.
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I think it's most beneficial to pull it up on
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the smart board and then work together. So you'll
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start to read through this article
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and you can ask students, let me know when you think
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a piece of content or when you
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think a sentence is really important and we're
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going to highlight it
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so we can run through. And you know, Timmy
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told me that this sentence was really
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helpful. So we're gonna highlight
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that in purple
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as you're reading through. Maybe Mary says,
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wow, this, this sentence is really,
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really important to what we're reading. This is giving us
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maybe the the main points of this
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page, we can highlight that again,
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maybe I have another student who's saying, I don't
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really understand what the sentence is.
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So maybe that's going to be highlighted in yellow
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and we can come back and kind of kind
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of dig deeper into this sentence to see
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exactly what it means. So this is a really
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nice way to get students engaged in the
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text instead of just reading through it, they're
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going through their highlighting the key points.
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Maybe they're highlighting things they don't quite understand.
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And again, this can be done together as a large
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group where the teacher is herself
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is highlighting the bit of information
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that students point out or it can be done
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individually
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and students can have to point it out on their own.
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And if we are using this method where we're highlighting
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and kind of keeping this information, may
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we may want to keep those for later or maybe
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students will be turning that into you.
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So we have a few different collaborative tools that
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may be helpful. So you can actually send
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this over to Google classroom. You'll see my Google
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classroom icon up top here.
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So if you want to send all the information that way,
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I'm not signed in, so I won't sign in today.
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But you see it pops up into this little
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window, you'll be able to create an
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assignment, ask a question. Anything
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you would be able to do within the native Google
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classroom interface and you'll be able to post
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it or you can
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choose you or your students can choose
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to send over to a Google drive or
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a one drive and sending over to these drives does
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keep the highlights along with the article.
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So if you do assign students to
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maybe highlighting the key points of an article
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or highlighting the things that can, they confuse
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them that they found most interesting,
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you can have them send it over to a drive or
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you can have it, you can have them email it to
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you. If you have your email address
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handy, you prefer that
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it does again keep those highlights
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and they can send that over to you.
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This can also be downloaded or printed.
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So again, if you prefer to have a hard copy,
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you have that ability here.
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But it's a really nice way to keep this.
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So once we have all of this set, we
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do kind of aggregate all of our highlights
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and notes together on one page as well.
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So if you want to take a look at that as a class,
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we have them nice and neatly organized in a chart.
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If you click into our highlights and notes option here,
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you'll see what I have highlighted, but I'm going to hit
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you all
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and now we'll see the different sentences we have highlighted.
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We'll see there are different highlight colors and we
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can add notes here.
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This is a great way just to have students
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kind of see the overall view
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of an article. This is really nice. If you want
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to help students learn how to summarize
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information, you can tell them, you know, highlights
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the pieces of this text that are most important
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that are going to give someone who's not
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reading the actual text and understanding of
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what it's saying. So they can highlight,
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pull forward into this highlights and notes
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option and they'll be able to
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just read what they highlighted to see if it
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really does make sense to see if they really
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did summarize the text,
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you'll see they can label their highlights as well.
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So if they want to label these maybe
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you'll see, I have a few different labels they've already used.
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maybe they highlighted the introduction
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of something. They can choose the highlights
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and list that here. Um Again, if they
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may be confused about something,
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they can just note that here. And again,
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they can save this for themselves.
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They can choose to send this over somewhere if
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they want to send it to their drives or if maybe they want
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to email it to you,
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they can download or they can print right here as
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well. So this is another great way to
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just have them kind of talk to the text
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and pull it apart and really understand
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what exactly it's trying to say
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and then clicking into it. They can easily get
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right back here
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to this main page and make edits. However
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they want to do that.
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I want to jump back into my presentation
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slides because of a few different bits
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of inspiration for activities that I hope
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will help you get this content to
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your students. So do you have any questions
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just about the content we took a look at or
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a few of those different tools we explored?
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OK. I don't see any. So I quickly
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want to mention we have a lot of pre
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creative activities already found
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on our support site, which is support.gale.com
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And while a lot of these activities aren't specifically
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focused on social and emotional learning,
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they give you kind of a great template if you want
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to get your students involved using that kind
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of option. So the
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first we have is a scavenger hunt. We have
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a huge collection of scavenger hunts.
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but these are great teams just to start up
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as well. So if you want to have a scavenger hunt, maybe
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about emotions or something like that,
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you go ahead and edit this to include just content
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related to emotions.
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Another great way to get this content into your
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classroom is using an escape room and
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we do have a full blank escape
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room on our support site for you. So
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again, as you look for this specific
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content you want, maybe it is working with the
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team, maybe it's conflict resolution.
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Maybe it's perspective taking,
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you can build a full escape room around
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that using the template we already have created on
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the support site. So no reinventing
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the wheel for you.
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You also might want to consider trading cards.
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We use those for a lot of different
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topics within the resource. So you'll
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see this one here. I pulled forward is just for solar
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systems, but it could also be great for
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emotions, you know, anger, sadness,
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happiness, excitement.
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And then on the back, you'll have them fill out
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whatever information you want them to fill out.
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When do people feel angry? How do people
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express their anger?
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And it's also a great idea to have them cite
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their sources on the backs of these
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trading cards as well. Within
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the resource, we actually have a citation tool
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where students could just click and get that citation
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create, created for them.
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It's an excellent way to have them practice citing
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sources.
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So nice, simple trading cards
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and we also have things you'll see. This one here is
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focused specifically on bullying. So this
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one is kind of pulling forward that social
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emotional learning, those life skills.
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This one's in just an article
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article report like a book report,
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they find an article within Galan context elementary
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that's about bullying
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and then they read through the article, they
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go over the why of the article, the
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what did you learn? Reflections? And
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then you see this one also has a class presentation
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set up as well.
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So these are just a few different ways that you can kind
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of get in contact elementary
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into your classroom. Instead of just
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focusing on research projects.
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Of course, we want your students to
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use this for their research. Always, always.
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But it also offers quite
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a few different activity options to really
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engage students electronically
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as opposed to strictly
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on paper. So
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quite a few different new options for you
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to take a look at there
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and that's what I have for you today. We do have
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a few minutes left. So I would love to answer questions,
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that anyone may have left over again.
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If you're looking for some more specific
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activity suggestions, we do have
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our support site where you can find those. So
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if you want to pull that, blank
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escape room, if you're planning and running in emotions,
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escape room or a teamwork escape room,
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you'll find that on our support site as well as
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scavenger hunts. all that good
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stuff, support.gale.com
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I definitely recommend taking a look
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if you do have the time.
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If you have more questions about this or maybe
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about Gale and contact elementary, just
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in general, you can reach out to your customer
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success manager. If you don't know who it is,
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just send an email to [email protected]
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and they can help you
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out. They can also work with you
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to take a look at the support site. If you want to take a look
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at the materials we have available, to
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really integrate this into your lessons.
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You can certainly do that
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if you don't have access to Gale and Context
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elementary right now, but you're interested, reach
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out to your sales consultant. If you don't know
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who they are, you can send I'm sorry,
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you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder
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and you'll be
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forwarded to the correct individual and you can talk about
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this resource with them, or maybe talk
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about your gale ebooks and how you can get those integrated
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within gale and context elementary.
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And finally, I do have a quick session survey
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here. If you have the time to take it, I have a QR
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code posted. It's also going
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to pop up in your browser once we're done here for
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the day. But I would love for you to take that
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just so we can make sure that we're always
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kind of hitting what you're looking for
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when you join these sessions. We want to make sure
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that you're getting the content that you need.